Comments on: Goodell: Playoff expansion to be discussed at next owners meetinghttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/
ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comFri, 09 Dec 2016 10:25:38 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: jollyjoker2http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3323186
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:27:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3323186also, if you don’t have the two top teams getting byes..the regular season will be played with just enough to guarantee a spot and the last 3 weeks of the season will be bench warmers.
]]>By: jollyjoker2http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3323184
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:26:08 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3323184go ahead roger – I shut off baseball years ago and have no problem adding the flag football league to the ledger.
]]>By: omniusprimehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3322111
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:20:48 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3322111Goodell is just another money grubbing scumbag who has no interest in the integrity of the NFL playoffs. I won’t waste my time watching that first round of losers playing when they should be gone fishing! I’ve watched less and less NFL football because it’s quality has dropped. Now that crybaby jerry jones can get his loser boys in the playoffs where they don’t belong with a losing record.
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Fri, 25 Apr 2014 03:27:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321880Expanding playoffs makes it more likely that a team with a losing record will make the playoffs. If you lose 9, or even 8 games, you really don’t deserve to be in the playoffs
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Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:03:15 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321716It’s more exposure which Goodell is obsessed with, so I can’t see playoff expansion not happening. Like it or not, it’s coming.
]]>By: seabrawk12http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3321356
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:57:10 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321356What I dislike about it is that it takes away the NEED TO WIN YOUR DIVISION which will make divisional games less intense. And everyone love divisional games for their intensity.
]]>By: clssylssyhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3321236
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:11:29 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321236It’s a done deal. The Owners can recognize an addiction and like the cartels are going to push there way in unless fans draw a line in the sand and stop buying season tickets and merchandise (not saying they should go cold turkey). As fans we hold the power but are too weak to just say no!
It wouldn’t surprise me to see Goodell begin a rotation system for the playoffs so all the teams get a fair shot and the playoff schedule is set the same time they come out with the regular season schedule.
]]>By: bobzilla1001http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3321146
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:41:13 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321146Last season, the Steelers started 0-4, then 2-6, but nearly made the playoffs because they play in a weak and distressed conference. Sorry, but that’s not good football, and, yes, it was extremely hard to watch.
It was hard to watch a 7-8 team have to win its regular-season finale (against a Browns team that had fired its coach and packed it in) just to reach 8-8, then pray for help. I wasn’t among the ones “praying,” which means my “addiction” is well on its way to being cured.
Mark Cuban is right.
]]>By: dctillidiehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3321133
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:38:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321133Cowboys still don’t make the playoffs.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:29:00 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321109I don’t want to expand playoffs, but I accept that is the owner’s prerogative to do so.

To the people who whine about the expansion, I recommend you act like an American who believes in free markets and stop watching. Or, you could create a new league to compete with the NFL using rules you and structure you agree with. Otherwise, I don’t give a damn and suggest you grab a rifle and man a post….(whoops, started channeling “A Few Good Men.”)

Somehow, I don’t think many people will stop watching. We are all addicted and cannot put the needle down.

]]>By: tanstewiehttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3321083
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:20:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3321083Can we have pft polls on here and twitter regarding playoff expansion and 18 game seasons…im willing to bet the fans overwhelmingly reject both. Yet goodell says the fans want it. Hes becoming jerru jones, jey my product sucks but its more popular than ever. Stop tinkering in an effort to squeeze every dollar out of us
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:38:53 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320944As an Atlanta resident that isn’t caring at all about a NBA playoff team currently playing that finished 9 games below .500, I beg you, NFL, don’t water down the postseason.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:36:22 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320927Goodell is the worst thing to happen to football since the Fox Sports dancing robots!
]]>By: schmitty2http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320893
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:31:32 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320893Goodell won’t be happy until most of the teams make the playoffs. It will be like March Madness in January.
]]>By: golfnutt67http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320873
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:24:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320873what needs to be done is award home field by record not just a division winner. No way the Cards should miss the playoff while the packers and eagles are hosting playoff games against teams with more wins. that’s a flaw in the system.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:21:11 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320868Addendum. What you could do if you want to preserve an additional bye for the Best Record in conference. The Worst record Loser Wild Card does not advance to face the Regular Season Winner of the Conference.
]]>By: veretaxhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320865
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:20:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320865I would be in favor of a Playoff expansion if one of the following scenarios happened.

The other option I’d like would be 4 Wild Card Teams, who then essentially fight for seeding. Best two Wild card winners face the worst two divisional winners, and the Best two Division winners face the worst two wild cards. Then the winner of those two games play in the championship. So the wild card round becomes a Seeding for the tournament round.

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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:18:02 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320860It’s amazing that the guy in charge of protecting the NFL, Goodell, is doing the most to destroy it.

He won’t be satisfied until he wrings every last cent out of the fans.

Every single idea he comes up with is bad — playoff expansion, London games, London Super Bowl, Olympics football, changing draft day and dates, moving kickoffs, getting rid of extra points, rules against “defenseless” receiver hits, plus he totally botched the “bounty” investigation. The guy is a walking disaster!

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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:17:31 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320858Keep the play offs the same but add a best 3 games series
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:17:26 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320857It doesn’t matter what we think. They’re going to do whatever they want to do.
]]>By: flipolahttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320833
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:08:39 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320833Come on, Dallas, just squeak into the playoffs just once, so he can drop this whole thing.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:01:48 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320813What he’s trying to do is take away ratings from NBA , HURT NHL..
]]>By: southpaw2khttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320809
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:59:28 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320809Nobody’s really surprised that the owners want a 7th playoff seed in each conference and an 18-game schedule, are they? Please tell me no one is surprised.

Economics 101: Everybody’s goal in life is to figure out a way to make more money. Think about things from your perspective versus the billionaire owners in sports. Say you’re at a job and you’re making $60,000 a year. It’s good money, but you’re going to want to eventually make more money beyond that, whether by getting raises or seeking a better-paying job elsewhere.

The owners are no different. They love making the money they already have, but they want to be able to make more money, just like you and me. Adding two more regular season games and/or a 7th playoff team in each conference is a way to do that.

The Cardinals last year were as good as the 49ers and Seahawks on defense last year and probably were the third or second best team in the NFL, but missed the playoffs.

If and when we see an 18 game schedule there needs to be expanded playoffs. The reason is because right now 14 of each team’s games are predetermined by what division they’re in. 2 games are made based on the team’s record. By that system good teams are already punished the following season for doing well. While crap teams that reload get a two game handicap. If you make that a four game handicap you’re going to see lots of good teams bounce in and out of the playoffs from year to year.

]]>By: blamatinahttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/24/goodell-playoff-expansion-to-be-discussed-at-next-owners-meeting/#comment-3320776
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:41:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320776I liked it better with 3 divisions per conference (East, Central, West). One division winner and one wild card per division.
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Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:38:33 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2256434#comment-3320768You guys who constantly blame Goodell for ruining the NFL… he works for the owners. He does NOTHING that they don’t want. The rules and things like playoff expansion come from the Competition Committee, not Goodell – and are voted on by the owners, not Goodell. Roger is simply the mouthpiece for the owners and the “attorney general” regarding the rules.